Do we really need another Puppy Linux web site or just need to have more people help with the ones we have?

Keeping information up to date seems to be the biggest issue.

I agree, there needs to be one main Puppy Linux web site and everyone needs to support and contribute to it.

The problem is which one?

The ones that have been around for years seem to be the ones that need the support.
They have the easy names to remember and the ones that people would guess at to look for.
www.puppylinux.com
puppylinux.org

The push should be to get people to support them.

There are a few common norms with the Internet that people expect.

Distribution web site will be - (name of distribution) .com or .org

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I agree, there needs to be one main Puppy Linux web site and everyone needs to support and contribute to it.

The problem is which one?

The ones that have been around for years seem to be the ones that need the support.
They have the easy names to remember and the ones that people would guess at to look for.
www.puppylinux.com
puppylinux.org

I would agree but puppylinux.com is BK's site I do not know if anyone else has access to it.
Puppulinux.org is desperately trying to keep up with the forum, but is not clear which way is going or how to keep up.
Above all I do not know how you get people to contribute.
Git is (almost) working in puppy building, so I thought to give it a try. But if it is easy to create a branch is even easier to delete it..._________________== Here is how to solve yourLinux problems fast ==

The git-page is a great idea.
puppylinux.com and puppylinux.org can be redirected to the git-page when stuff is in place. I find it hard to believe that Barry or Raffy will be working against this solution._________________Stardust resources

The git-page is a great idea.
puppylinux.com and puppylinux.org can be redirected to the git-page when stuff is in place. I find it hard to believe that Barry or Raffy will be working against this solution.

I strongly disagree with this idea. GitHub is not newb-friendly at all. Its interface is obtuse at best. I've certainly never figured out how to work it! (...and yes, I tried.)

By the way, an offer that might help this situation --

What if, once a week, I downloaded and checked out a Puplet or two, and wrote up a review? I've got the time for sure, and that's one way I'd be able to contribute to Puppy fairly easily without involving another go-round with sc0ttman's Woofy tool (no offense, dude, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to be doing the dev thing yet). I've got a number of systems I could use to test Pups with (three laptops, two desktops, and a netbook).

Puppulinux.org is desperately trying to keep up with the forum, but is not clear which way is going or how to keep up.
Above all I do not know how you get people to contribute.

Use the info at the bottom of this web page to contact Raffym on how you can help with the web site.
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You could post reviews here:
http://puppylinuxnews.org/community/_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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I'm sure that Raffy can use all the help he can get. The site is not really updated for a year or more. Slacko 5.5 and 5.6 are still recommended in some top links and after slacko 5.7 you find Lucid 5.2.8 in another!

But what I do not know is
a) how can you convince someone to contribute and
b) Assuming we agree that currently puppylinux.org is not missing only updating and bigger buttons, if a complete redesign of the site is a goal.

If (b) is an option then the github page may be the way to go.
You just drop the current site tree under "Archived links" and you start afresh.
Then again if someone wants to take the current site and redesign/update it. I'm all for it._________________== Here is how to solve yourLinux problems fast ==

I have noticed that Barry's blog/news page has not changed for quite a while now and hit logged in visits to the forum seem to have disappeared also.
Does anyone think he is keeping track of the progress of Puppy Linux after supplying the tools to make new Puppy versions?
With new Puppy versions such as Blue and the versions of Puppy being continually developed ans improved for the handicapped as well as versions based on other distros, progress is being made.
But if one tried to make a Puppy version based on Red Hat, would the repository be available? Or is that an area one should stay away from?

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